The top court yesterday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed.

Large-scale riots had broken out in the national capital in the aftermath of the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two Sikh security guards on the morning of October 31, 1984. The ensuing violence had claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone.

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